Bakheng

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Bakheng

temple mountain, Cambodia

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Southeast Asian arts
Kingdom of Khmer: 9th–13th century
The Bakheng, begun in 893, had an enormous series of 108 tower shrines arranged on the terraces around the central pyramid, which was crowned by a quincunx of principal shrines. The whole was intended to illustrate a mystical conception of the cosmos, very much on the…
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The Bakheng, begun in 893, had an enormous series of 108 tower shrines arranged on the terraces around the central pyramid, which was crowned by a quincunx of principal shrines. The whole was intended to illustrate a mystical conception of the cosmos, very much on the…
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Cambodia
Angkorean civilization
His temple mountain, now called Bakheng (literally “Mighty Ancestor”), was built on a natural hill that overlooked a teeming city, the more-distant rice-growing plain, and the Tonle Sap. The mountain occupied the center of the city, just as Mount Meru, the mythical home in India of the Hindu gods, was…
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His temple mountain, now called Bakheng (literally “Mighty Ancestor”), was built on a natural hill that overlooked a teeming city, the more-distant rice-growing plain, and the Tonle Sap. The mountain occupied the center of the city, just as Mount Meru, the mythical home in India of the Hindu gods, was…
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